Paper Craft Crew Challenge Archives

Bright & Beautiful Handmade Birthday Card

Posted on July 25, 2023July 25, 2023 by inkspirationwithteresa

This week’s Paper Craft Crew challenge is a sketch challenge; PCC 527. At first I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. But then I thought of the Beautiful Balloons stamps and dies… actually the whole Bright & Beautiful suite. It’s been a little while since I crafted with them, but I think this sketch works great to make a Bright & Beautiful handmade birthday card. Here’s the sketch design we’ve been given…

From here I picked my Designer Series Paper design. I went with one of the more simple designs that uses Misty Moonlight and Fresh Freesia. So for the card base I used Misty Moonlight cardstock. I layered on a nice big piece of the DSP for my card mat. Then I popped up a tag I made using some Fresh Freesia balloons and Misty Moonlight ribbons. I love the little confetti holes that this die makes! The ‘happy birthday’ is also in Misty Moonlight. And the ribbon is from my retired stash. I still have a little bit of the Misty Moonlight cotton trim.

Then I layered on a Misty Moonlight cupcake from the Circle Sayings stamp set. The ‘celebrate’ circle is also from this stamp set and I punched it all out with the coordinating punch. I popped this up too. Along with a couple of balloons that I stamped and die cut.

Bright & Beautiful Handmade Birthday Card

As I’m typing this I’m wondering why I didn’t add some Rhinestone Basic Jewels! You totally should! Even without them I still like this Bright & Beautiful handmade birthday card.

Check out all the other cards for this week’s Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge here.

And check out my last card for the Paper Craft Crew here.

Paper Craft Crew Challenge #484

Posted on September 6, 2022September 6, 2022 by inkspirationwithteresa

I find inkspiration in a lot of different places. Sometimes by something I see in nature, sometimes by another crafter’s design and sometimes when I’m simply looking at my craft stash. That last one doesn’t happen too often, so I’m excited when it does. Today’s card was inkspired by Paper Craft Crew Challenge #484 (PCC484). It’s a Tic Tac Toe challenge which means you can choose any 3 boxes in the grid for your design as long as they create a line. Here’s the grid…

For my design I choose a diagonal line; ribbon, leaves and watercolour. And I decided to go with some more fall like colours since it is September. I just love Fall colours! And to help these colours pop I’m using a Basic Black card base along with some Black & White 1/4″ Gingham ribbon. The phrase and images come from the Happiness Abounds stamp set. I used a combination of Pear Pizzazz and Tuxedo Black Memento ink for my leaves. And just Memento ink for the flowers and phrase. To watercolour my leaves and flowers I used Pear Pizzazz, Crushed Curry and Calypso Coral.

Behind the leaves and flowers I embossed piece of Basic White cardstock with the Painted Texture 3D Embossing folder. It adds a nice little something in the background and doesn’t take away from the other elements. Then I cut out the centre piece Basic White cardstock using one of the Stitched Rectangles dies and framed it with a piece of Basic Black. From here I popped up the centre rectangle with some Stampin’ Dimensionals and then layered my leaves and flowers on top.

Check out the other entries for the Paper Craft Crew Challenge #484 here. And check out a card I designed for one of the previous Tic Tac Toe challenges here.